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Research Projects: 001 VDT / SimVision

Started: 1988
Funding: $2,400,000 (Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, NSF, The Information Work Productivity Consortium, The Center for Edge Power)
People: Diane Bailey, Stephen Barley, Per Bjornsson, Ray Buettner, Richard Burton, Kathleen Carley, John Chachere, Carol Cheng-Cain, Tore Christiansen, Geoff Cohen, Noshir Contractor, Martin Fischer, Douglas Fridsma, Janet Fulk, Mike Fyall, Archis Ghate, Peter Glynn, William Hewlett III, Pam Hinds, Andrea Hollingshead, Tamaki Horii, Bernardo Huberman, Yan Jin, Bijan Khosraviani, Jolin Salazar Kish, John Koza, John Kunz, Yul Kwon, Monique Lambert, Raymond Levitt, Douglas MacKinnon, Ashwin Mahalingam, James March, Noah Mark, Sam Miller, Peter Monge, Michael Murray, Walid Nasrallah, Clifford Nass, Borge Obel, Gaye Oralkan, Ryan Orr, Alfonso Pulido, Somik Raha, Marc Ramsey, Jan Thomsen, Roxanne Zolin
Purpose: The objective of this long-range research program is to develop theory, methodology and tools to model, simulate and optimize the design of project organizations.

25 Oct 2006: SimVision - Academic Course Materials
ePM, the company that offers the commercial version of SimVision, has created an Academic Course materials page that is available at: http://support.epm.cc/AcademicCourse/index.htm
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6 Jul 2006: SimVision - Benefits
The SimVision approach to modeling project organizations builds on the information-processing view of the firm and offers several distinct benefits over conventional methods:
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12 Mar 2006: VDT/SimVision Research Program - History
Early work focused on modeling and predicting the impacts of "hidden" coordination and supervision work on fast-paced, complex facility and product development projects. Subsequent work extended the framework to model less routine work processes such as health care delivery and equipment maintenance.
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